Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

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Sunday, December 26, 2010

The Derivatives Monster That's 9X Bigger than the Global Economy / Stock-Markets / Derivatives

By: Richard_Daughty

I assume that you, as an intelligent person who understands that the treacherous, greedy, vampire banks creating so much excess money means We’re Freaking Doomed (WFD), are Up To Your Freaking Ears (UTYFE) in gold, silver and oil, and you have had it UTYFE with your family always complaining about how you spend all the family’s income on gold, silver and oil instead of luxuries, family vacations, adequate food, clothing, medical care, dental care, blah blah blah, the list goes on and on.

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Global Stocks and Commodities Trotting / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Piazzi

Let’s take a look at a variety of indexes, one commodity, and one commodity-related index

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Stock Market Technical Outlook 2011 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011

By: Chris_Ciovacco

As we kick off 2011, there are plenty of things for investors to worry about, including budget imbalances in developed nations, high levels of bullish sentiment, and a fear of rising interest rates. As of late December 2010, the market’s technical profile remains healthy relative to the outlook for the next few months, something we expand on in the video below.

Friday, December 24, 2010

Stock Market Santa Rally Closes at New Bull Market High, FTSE Above 6000 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Nadeem_Walayat

London's FTSE 100 Stocks Index closed at a new bull market high and above the 6000 level for the first time since June 2008, which followed the Dow's yesterday close at a new bull market high of 11,573.

Friday, December 24, 2010

Lessons Learned by Looking Back at 2010 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Mike_Larson

The year is winding down, and boy has it been an exciting and volatile one. Bonds. Currencies. Financial stocks. Some of the gyrations we’ve witnessed in those instruments over the past 12 months were enough to take your breath away …

Friday, December 24, 2010

Thoughts on Stock Market Timing and Hundreds of Billions in Municipal Bond Market Losses? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: John_Mauldin

We Lost One of the Really Good Guys
Hundreds of Billions in Losses? Really?
Some Thoughts on Market Timing
Where Has the Year Gone?

I am neither a market timer nor the son of a market timer. I left my office in the Texas Rangers ballpark this year, and they went to the World Series. I bought Dallas Cowboys season tickets for the first time in 50 years, as they went down in flames. But I do know a few very good timers, and they are sending out warnings. Today, we look at a few of these, as it might pay to hedge some of your equity portfolio as we go into the New Year. I also answer some questions as to my view of the municipal bond market, given the 60 Minutes report of last week. The answers may surprise you. And as we approach the end of the year, I suggest a place where your help is most needed. I will try to keep it shorter, as there are more important things at this time of the year than the markets.

Friday, December 24, 2010

Stock Market Bullish Tone Continues into 2011 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011

By: Donald_W_Dony

Equity markets have enjoyed a positive tone since mid-2010. Improving fundamentals and rising U.S. GDP have bolstered investor confidence and supported the upward trend of the bull market. A year-end review of several key technical gauges highlights the ongoing strength that is normally associated with bull markets and should remind investors of the opportunities ahead in 2011.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Stock Sentiment Worsens... Holiday Time Holds Market Up... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Jack_Steiman

This is normally a very bullish time of the year for the stock market. Santa Clause and all that nonsense. It's a retail trade time where small investors buy, and buy, and buy some more the way they're trained to do while the big money walks away for vacation. Volume trends are ridiculously low, but the markets almost always trend higher. We like that notion. Holiday cheer and good market times. Only problem is, sentiment is now becoming an important issue for this market.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Investor ETF Madness hits $1 Trillion / Stock-Markets / Exchange Traded Funds

By: PhilStockWorld

After adding $209Bn (26.3%) in total assets so far this year, the US ETF industry has passed the Trillion Dollar mark led by $31Bn of inflows into fixed income ETFs, of all things as well as $29Bn of inflows into emerging markets, and $21Bn into domestic.  Recent outflows have knocked commodity ETFs down to $11.4Bn, miles down from last year’s $32.6Bn inflow – rats leaving a sinking ship, perhaps?  That would be very bad news for the firm that bought up 90% of the LME copper supply recently.  Do ETF traders really know something or are they a lagging indicator?

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

The Three Financial Market Trends That Will Define 2011 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011

By: Chris_Kitze

It’s that time of the year when analysts and economics make financial predictions for the year ahead. And it is time for me to throw in my two cents’ worth as well. I believe that four financial trends will shape and define 2011. Here they are:

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Ten Economic and Investment Themes for 2011 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011

By: Mike_Shedlock

1. US Municipal Bankruptcies Head to Center Stage

Look for Detroit and at least one other city in Michigan to go bankrupt. Also look for increasing discussions regarding bankruptcy from Los Angeles, Miami, Oakland, Houston, and San Diego. Those cities are definitely bankrupt, they just have not admitted it yet. The first major city to go bankrupt will cause a huge stir in the municipal bond market. Best to avoid Munis completely.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Stock Market Sentiment Not A Barrier To Further Gains / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011

By: Chris_Ciovacco

There are currently several reasons to be concerned about the stock market, from debt problems in Europe to slowing technical momentum. However, if investor sentiment is currently at the top of your list of concerns, you may want to bump it down a few notches.

Stock market sentiment relative to a bullish or bearish outlook can be used as a contrary indicator for stock prices when it reaches extremes. If you follow the markets closely, you have run into an article or two making the case that a correction or bear market is imminent based on the current state of extended bullish sentiment.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

U.S. Stock Market Forecast 2011, Outperform for Tech, Energy and Commodity, Gold Sectors / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011

By: Money_Morning

Shah Gilani writes: The outlook for the U.S. stock market in the New Year figures to be an exasperating mixture of promise and peril. Positive momentum is building going into 2011, but so are dangerous bubbles.

The high-tech, energy, materials and commodities sectors will be hot in the New Year. And the U.S. stock market will get an added boost from the fact that U.S. Treasuries, municipal bonds (munis) and euro-based investments will not.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Profiting from Fed Policy / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: David_Galland

David Galland, Managing Director, Casey Research writes: These days, it’s hard to draw any conclusion other than that the train is gaining speed on wobbly tracks perched over a rickety bridge.

Most notably, unemployment has again risen – to 9.8% from 9.6% – very much not the direction things should be headed given the amount of money the government has pumped into the economy. The latest data shows that this nation of 310 million souls managed to add just 39,000 jobs in November. That, unfortunately, falls short of even keeping up with a population growth of about 1% – doing just that requires generating a net of about 250,000 jobs a month. As for eating away at the millions of unemployed and the many millions more who are underemployed… oh, well.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

I Figured Out How to Get Bullish on Stocks! / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: PhilStockWorld

Just read the Wall Street Journal.  On the front page we have "Nuclear Pact Adds Backers" above the fold along with a fluff piece on the weather in Europe. There are 3 other featured articles on the front page of the World’s most widely-read financial paper and one is a fluff piece on the Jimmy Stewart museum, one is on the obscure concept of betting people are going to die (very fun and interesting but "The World’s biggest financial paper"?) and the last is on the SEC looking into Mark Hurd’s exit from HP.  On the left is "What’s News" with about 30 summaries of articles in the paper so one would think you could look this over and have a really good idea of what’s going on in the World.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Japan and Euro Problems, But Crude Oil Has No Problem / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Bari_Baig

The Difficult Japanese Politics: We normally discuss about the popularity graph of the Japanese prime minister here at “marketprojection” that as time passes the slope of the curve almost always points lower but today however we discuss something different.  Today it is the probable scandal issue which is turning the things for the worse in the ruling party.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Stock Market Volatility Set to Pick Up in the New Year / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Captain_Hook

The markets are so manipulated these days that it’s becoming increasingly difficult to gauge just what effect increasing interference is having, knowing in general all unnatural stimuli have decreasing impact the longer and more they are applied. Perhaps the best example of this at present comes from the bond market, where in spite of QE2 and a generous POMO schedule (every day now) that looks set to run in perpetuity, bond prices are falling. In this regard you should know US long bonds (and 10-Year Treasuries) are in jeopardy of signaling a secular trend change with a bearish five-wave pattern lower, which is why so many are now looking for another crash in real estate. We will let you know when such a signal in the bond market is triggered.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Stock Market Elliott Wave Trend Forecast 2011 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011

By: Joseph_Russo

In this critical year-end forecast we shall pinpoint the following:

• The precise degree of trend in which the Dow currently trades
• The size and scope of the current wave at Supercycle degree
• Where the Dow stands within its current primary bull market advance
• Where the Dow and general share prices may be heading in 2011 and beyond
• The precise path broad market indices may take during the course of IV down
• Exactly how traders and investors should engage the markets going forward

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Stock Market Nails On The Chalkboard.... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Jack_Steiman

No one likes that sound. Makes you cringe. Makes you scream and cover your ears. It's just not pleasant. That's where we are now. An unpleasant grinding market that refuses to change its stripes. It refuses to pull back and reset those oscillators, but at the same time it's constricted to the upside. Markets do not blast higher, even in retail market days such as these are at holiday time, when you're this overbought. There's just not enough fuel in the tank to allow things to launch upward and out in to a new leg of this bull phase we're in right now.

Monday, December 20, 2010

Bernanke’s Next Fed Created Treasury Bond Market Disaster / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Michael_Swanson

Last week the major market averages traded in a narrow range, with the S&P 500 trading between 1246 and 1234, as they appear to be taking a small pause in the rally. I think there is a good change that they will breakthrough this range before the end of this week and start another move higher and if they don't do it this week they almost certainly will next week.

Everyone knows that the market moves up at the end of the year and everyone is bullish right now.